Talk by Jeff Hawkins and Subutai Ahmad of Numenta, Inc. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: The neocortex exhibits a detailed architecture that is largely preserved across different functional areas and between species. This has led to the idea of a common cortical algorithm that underlies all aspects of perception, language, and thought. Whether such a common algorithm exists and what it could be has been debated for decades. Our team has...
Topics: theoretical neuroscience, cortex
Talk given by Bill Softky, Chief Algorithm Officer of Demdex (now Adobe Software) and former RNI (Redwood Neuroscience Institute) member. Talk given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: One of the most systematic and plausible models for cortical function is that of thousands of modest-sized and interconnected modules (like hypercolumns), each of which performs the same set of primitive operations on its inputs: learning most typical input patterns,...
Talk by William Softky and Criscillia Benford (bio's below), given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract Medical and governmental authorities around the world have identified a host of problematic behaviors with names like internet addiction, gaming addiction, and texting addiction; most of us know sufferers. The scale of these technology-related addictions is vast, and their social impacts profound, but because the behaviors themselves are so different,...
Topics: screen addiction, neuroscience
